ABSTRACT
It is about how we equip the new generation of planners, architects, and urban designers, both in the global north and •‘—–ŠǡŠ‘™™‡‡“—‹’–Š‡–‘‡‰ƒ‰‡™‹–Š†‹ơ‡”‡–…‘†‹–‹‘• –Šƒ–”‡“—‹”‡…‘’Ž‡–‡Ž›†‹ơ‡”‡–‘†‡Ž•‘ˆ’”ƒ…–‹…‡ǤȋƒŠ—ƒŽ ‡Š”‘–”ƒ‹ƒ‹–‡”˜‹‡™™‹–Š†‰ƒ”‹‡–‡”•‡ȋ͢͢͠͡ȌȌ
There are large challenges facing the discourse and practice of urban design, especially in its relation to development in
the global south, where the contestation over land security, access to basic resources, and shelter compound the struggle for a right to the city. Urban design has been characterised as a practice that aspires to ‘create the feedback loops between the different forces that were independently moulding the built environment’ (Mehrotra 2012) and in this respect has been seen as the bridge discipline that could influence or at least align with policy in a more dynamic fashion than, for example, planning.
